IUCN/SSC - Caprinae Specialist Group
A photographic collection of the world's Caprinae
*** Common and scientific names are as suggested by who submitted the pictures ***
Wild Sheep
Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis canadensis)
Photos by Marco Festa-Bianchet
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Young adult female | |
Skull of an exceptionally well-developed 4-year-old male from southwestern Alberta, that died of pneumonia. |
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Adult rams | |
2-year-old ram |
Blandford's urial (Ovis vignei blandfordi) from Pakistan
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Photo supplied by Amjad Virk |  |
Photo supplied by Nausherwan Ahmed |
Punjab urial (Ovis vignei punjabiensis) in the Salt Range, Punjab, Pakistan, October - November, 2000. Photos by Ghulam Ali Awan
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| And here is what we definitely DO NOT want to see: a hybrid between a domestic sheep and a Punjab urial. Photo supplied by Ghulam Ali Awan |
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A male Kyzylkum sheep, or Severtzov's argali
(Ovis ammon severtzovi) in summer coat, from the Nuratau Range in
Uzbekistan.
Photo by Elena Kreuzberg-Mukhina |
| Tian Shan Argali (Ovis ammon
karelini). Photo by Feng Gang, supplied by Rich Harris. Adult males in Hejing County, Xinjiang Province, China. |
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Tibetan argali (Ovis ammon hodgsoni)
in the proposed Gya-Miru Wildlife Sanctuary, India Photo by Tsewan Namgail |
Argali (Ovis ammon) ewes. Photos by Feng Gang, supplied by Rich Harris..
Approx. 88Ð E, 47.5Ð N, Jungar Plateau. Perhaps O. a. ammon, perhaps O. a. collium
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Mongolian argali (Ovis ammon) in Dornogobi Aimag, Mongolia.
Photos by Richard Reading and Henry Mix: adult ewe, adult rams and young ram running
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Dall sheep (Ovis dalli dalli) Photo supplied by David Shackleton |
| Chinese blue sheep or bharal (Pseudois
nayaur szechuanensis). Dulan International Hunting
Grounds, Qinghai Province, P.R. China, 1995 Photo by Mike Frisina |
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Last update - 11/10/03
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